[Bf-committers] Long plugin path problem

[Stephane SOPPERA]

> Hi!
>
> I noticed today that the path of sequence plugins is limited to 80 
> caracters (name member of the PluginSeq struct) and that strcpy is 
> used to copy the path in this variable. So the memory is corrupted 
> when the path for a plugin is longer than 80 characters (that's the 
> case of many plugins on my system) and the plugin don't work ;-)
>
> An easy fix would be to set a bigger limit (bigger than FILE_MAXDIR 
> which is quite small and lesser than PATH_MAX on my system). A better 
> fix should be to use a C++ class for strings ;-)

Where should I post this message?
Is the easy solution of increasing the maximum path length valid? (I 
don't know yet if that makes a difference when saving for example)

Thanks,

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Stephane SOPPERA
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.soppera